Tagged Products - wii+wheel

A Fantastic Game But Not The Best

This game is fantastic because you feel like you really driving a kart. I liked to drift so much! You will have more fun using the wheel but it doesn't help a lot.
But you will have a little bored after you play for a LONG time. It can be better if you can create your own kart and a own course.
But it's still good because you play online! You play with experts around the world!
You can drive bikes!

Pros.:
Feel like you are really driving a kart
Many different items, karts and courses
Can play online
You can drive bikes

Cons.:
Can't create karts and courses

Somewhat useless

I bought this to have more choices of wheels for our racing games, mostly Mario Kart.

What I couldn't figure out was the suction cup. If you stick it on a coffee table, then you have to lean over the table to steer -- ?!@*^&*!@

If you remove it from the bottom, then you have a piece sticking out the bottom still.

Kind of useless.

Steering wheel for WII

This certainly works for it's intended purpose. My son has had an easier time playing the driving games using that wheel to hold the remote properly. It does not fit all of our Wii controlers though. Some of the wrist strap have a larger plastic piece that does not allow it to fit through the wheel.

Wii Micro Wheel - Pink, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!

By all means don't waste your money on this item. I purchased this wheel for my daughter along with two "original" wii wheels for the rest of the family. The original wii wheels have no trouble at all inserting the remote controller into them. That is not the case with this item. You have to FORCE the controller into and at times wonder if you are going to damage the controller doing so. It is not something that my daughter can either insert or remove after she is done. What a rip off. Don't waste your money as the original wii steering wheels were and are the same price.

Piece of junk

I applaud Amazon for their quick shipment, but this thing broke within a week of use!! The downshift lever made a popping sound, and that was it. It never worked again!.

I'm going back to a Logitech wheel. Logitech might cost more, but in my experience, it is a much better quality wheel.

Wii Steering Wheel

We have the original wheel that came with his mario kart game and we bought this one for when he has a friend over...this one is just as suitable. Seems sturdy and though it is shaped differently that the original it serves the same function.

DON'T BUY THIS

I'm not sure if it's just this particular steering wheel or if it's all of them but if you want good control from your remote - don't buy this. You snap the remote into the wheel, which then blocks the signal from the Wii to the remote. This was a waste of money.

Good racing wheel. Great racing wheel for the price.

I ordered this last week for playing GRID on my PS3. When I took it out of the box, I was a little worried because the wheel is so small compared to one I had for my Xbox. But after clamping it to a table and firing up GRID, my worries are gone. The choice I had was between this wheel for $30 or a Logitech wheel for $150. I'm not sure what a $150 wheel does for you but this one works well with my PS3, will work with my Wii, and makes playing GRID much more fun.

Works great, but not too comfortable

My husband bought me this wheel along with Excite Truck for Christmas last year (the official Wii Wheel wasn't available). It's really fun and works well, but I find that I get raw spots on my fingers from the rough seam around the edge of the wheel. Probably nothing a little sandpaper couldn't take care of.

The trick to getting the wiimote into the wheel is to line it up exactly and push the wiimote straight in. If you try to go at an angle (put one side in and then the other) it won't go. It's a very snug fit.

4 stars instead of 5 because it does have a few minor issues and the official wheel is cheaper.

worth the purchase

This was a great game to help my son with his eye hand coordination. He absolutely loves it. I also recommend the Mario Party 8. Even I have to get in on the action. Easy to use controls. Only one area of diffulty for my 5 1/2 yr old.

I LOVE IT

Finally I got the right steering wheel I had the original Nintendo but it did not have the suction part it was no real fun

This one has the suction and you can adjust it in all angles a beautiful piece I strongly recommend it

Mariolover

great game for everyone in the family. graphic are fabulous. very fun and exiciting. will spend hours playing. able to connect online with others to play along.

Great for Mario Kart Wii

I purchased this for my 11 year old daughter, as she wanted a "real" racing wheel with pedals for the Wii. It was easy to set up (just plug it in) and, it worked right away. After launching Mario Kart Wii with the wii remote, the Thrustmaster wheel functions like an additional wii remote for choosing characters and races. The pedals work for acceleration and braking, and, I find that the racing wheel has a nice feel to it. It can be set to one of two sensitivity settings.
I also found a sheet showing the button presets for Mario Kart on the Thrustmater support website. For instance, the brake pedal also functions as a drift button. My daughter loves it. She races with my 14 year old son, who uses the Wii wheel that came with the game. But they both prefer using the Thrustmaster racing wheel, as it is easier to use and more "fun," than the standard wii wheel.

NOTE: Thrustmaster Technical Support has informed me that Mario Kart Wii is the ONLY Wii game that supports this racing  more

Finally Online Mario Kart!!

This game is fun. The online play makes every race intelligent and challenging. While the traditional single player is a great challenge it's extremely difficult because the computers cheat. Of course they've always cheated since the original Mario Kart, but this time they cheat even worse.

Now the online play is what makes this game great. You can always get anywhere from 7 to 11 competitors at any time of the day or night. These people are tough, but it's always a blast ramming and slamming them as you race for the finish. Its so much more real when you get those pesky computers off thet track. You ram them and they feel it in their hands, it doesn't get better than that.

The way the online play is set up is very slick. Nintendo picks players from either your country or around the world. They introduce them to you as a Mii waving in their locality on the globe. Sometimes you might race the same people 10 times in a row so you've got that opportunity to make it personal.  more

Very Pleased

I am a regular nintendo wii player and an avid overstock shopper. This game was a great deal and I have not been able to stop playing it since I got it a few days ago. I like the remote method of playing better than using the wheel it comes with. It is easier to control. So before you go and buy a second wheel for the other player in your home test out all methods of using the remotes. Def buy this game!!!

Not the Nintendo version

I mistakenly thought this was the same as the wheel that came with Mario Kart. It is NOT, and that wheel is better - it has a trigger-like button for the B button.

This wheel make removal of the controller a bit more difficult to boot (you have to push from both ends, vs. the Wii wheel which will release the controller by simply pushing on the hole in the back where you put the strap).

The wheel will still work ok, and I do not plan on buying another Wii wheel to replace it, but if you can, just buy the Wii wheel.

Get the official wheel!

This wheel is very similar to the wheel that comes with Mario Kart, but there is no button cover for the B button! If you are trying to play manual and power slide, good luck! It feals like it's broken right from the package! Go with the official version!

Not good for small hands

I bought this at Walmart for $9.99 last week assuming they will all be sold out after the release of Mario Kart. After buying Mario Kart and playing it with the game issued wheel, I decided to try this one. There is no spots for the sensor on the Wii mote or be 'B' button like the nintendo wheel. After playing one course my hands started to hurt because the wheel was too large for my hands. Not recomended for small children.

Do not get the wheel - get the nunchuk

I LOVE the Mariokart Wii game. I bought a wheel and a remote + nunchuk combination to try which one worked better. To give you background, I did play Mariokart using N64 controllers in the past, but I'm not an avid gamer. My other friend plays videogames occasionally. We both agreed that the wheel was really difficult to handle with turns, and for some reason it wouldn't flip even when I tried. It works, but if you want really tight control over courses, if you want to beat the computer characters and unlock new courses, the wheel probably won't be the best accessory. On the other hand, the remote + nunchuk combination was much easier to play with, your arms are not constantly in motion and you can take a much more relaxed stance on the couch. It just felt a lot more natural to me.

Surprisingly Useful

The concept of a Wiimote wheel was just plain hilarious. And very easy to poke fun of. Why do you need a plastic wheel that's detached from anything? Are you going to drive with it at the top of your head? Then there's the fact that they went through 20-iterations or so to design the wheel. And then you can go on and on about how complicated is it to design a wheel. It's not like they needed to reinvent the wheel.

But then I actually used, and surprised surprised it was fantastic. It felt natural to use the wheel and the wiimote together. It's comfortable and the response was just seamless. It was especially useful at keeping me from over steering as I wont to do in previous mario kart game. So yes, the wheel is definitely worth it. I don't know how people with different hand sizes feel about the wheel, but it perfectly suited mine.